In Astoria, sea lions are an endemic presence along the Columbia River banks and especially along the Port of Astoria’s East Mooring Basin. The port has experimented with several nonlethal methods for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea Lions in the Cowliz River, near the mouth of the Cowlitz and the Columbia rivers in southwestern Washington. (Photo by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Washington Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez wants to explore more lethal removal options for sea lions. She joined a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing on Wednesday, where ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a nearly 2½-hour hearing Wednesday.

When it comes to sea lions in the Columbia and Willamette, it can seem like a losing battle, but a presentation last night ...